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March 16, 2010 - 8:00pm
Mar 16 | Prismatic Publics and Neighbour Procedure Winnipeg Launch

Celebrate the arrival of spring with some poetic innovation from Coach House Books. Join us at McNally Robinson Booksellers on Tuesday, March 16 to celebrate the joint launch of Rachel Zolf's Neighbour Procedure and the anthology Prismatic Publics: Innovative Canadian Women's Poetry and Poetics, edited by Heather Milne and Kate Eichhorn (which contains work from Zolf).

March 16, 2010 - 7:00pm
Mar 16 | Claudia Dey at Redbird Radio: Performance and Dinner Party

This one-of-a-kind performance and dinner party event features eadings by Claudia Dey (Stunt) and Damian Rogers (Paper Radio), a musical performance by Kate Boothman and Nick Taylor of Sunbear and visual accompaniment by Adam Harris held in a small room at The Spoke Club (600 King St. West).

Free performance at 7 p.m. sharp followed by $35 prix-fixe meal at 8:15 p.m. To RSVP for dinner, please email concierge@thespokeclub.com or call 416-368-8448 x221.

March 11, 2010 - 7:00pm
Mar 11 | Jocelyn Brown at Edmonton Lit Saloon

Jocelyn Brown (The Mitochondrial Curiosities of Marcels 1 to 19) reads at the Artery Literary Saloon, Edmonton's rootin'est, tootin'est literary series. Other guests to be announced shortly.

The Artery Literary Saloon
featuring Jocelyn Brown and others
Thursday, March 11, 2010
The ARTery, 9535 Jasper Avenue
Edmonton, AB
$5
For more details visit literarysaloon.blogspot.com.

March 10, 2010 - 8:00pm
Mar 10 | David Derry at Pivot Reading Series

David Derry, the author of Sentimental Exorcisms, and a.rawlings, author of Wide slumber for lepidopterists, read with Zachariah Wells (Track and Trace) at Toronto's popular Pivot Reading Series, at the Press Club (850 Dundas Street West).

Pivot Reading Series
featuring David Derry, a.rawlings and Zachariah Wells
Wednesday, March 10, 2010

March 8, 2010 - 7:00pm
Mar 8 | Rachel Zolf at Brown University

On Monday, March 8, 2010, Coach House Poet Rachel Zolf (Neighbour Procedure, Human Resources) will read with Andrea Actis at the McCormack Family Theatre at Brown University.

Incuhabitations II: Innovative Canadian Women's Poetry
Readings by Rachel Zolf and Andrea Actis
Monday, March 8
7 p.m.
Brown University

March 4, 2010 - 7:30pm
Mar 4 | Christian Bök in Ottawa

Christian Bök (Eunoia) will give a free public lecture on Thursday, March 4 at Carleton University. A reception will follow.

Be Okay with an Umlaut:
A Grand Tour through the Work of Christian Bök
March 4, 2010
Carleton University
Tory Building, Room 360
7:30 p.m., free

March 1, 2010 - 7:00pm
Mar 1 | The Edible City: Reading and Food Tasting

Eat Your Hart Out with The Edible City!

The Hart House Social Justice and Literary & Library Committees present David Alexander, Joshna Maharaj, Jason McBride, and Wayne Roberts, who will be reading and discussing their essays about the Toronto food scene that were recently published in The Edible City: Toronto's Food From Farm to Fork. The book's co-editors Christina Palassio and Alana Wilcox will introduce the readers, and several local food producers will also be serving food samples. All are welcome to taste and learn!

February 25, 2010 - 7:00pm
Feb 25 | Sina Queyras in Vancouver

On Thursday, February 25, Sina Queyras (Expressway) will join Lydia Kwa (The Walking Boy) and Emily Fedoruk (All Still) for readings and conversation moderated by Meredith Quartermain. This event is being hosted by the On Edge Reading Series and the Kootenay School of Writing.

February 24, 2010 - 8:00pm
Feb 24 | Maggie Helwig at Pivot Reading Series

Join us on Wednesday, February 24 for Pivot Readings at the Press Club. Coach House author Maggie Helwig (Girls Fall Down) will join a diverse lineup including a special out-of-town appearance from Peter Dubé and THIS Magazine Literary Hunt winner Kate Marshall Flaherty.

February 24, 2010 - 6:30pm
Feb 24 | Kate Eichhorn in New York

Kate Eichhorn (Prismatic Publics) will join Akilah Oliver and Charles Berstein at Tendencies: Poetics and Practice. This series of talks by major contemporary poets, titled in honor of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, explores the relationship between contemporary poetic manifesto, practice, queer theory, and pedagogy.

Kate Eichhorn at Tendencies